Editor's Note: This column appears in a point-counterpoint regarding whether polls are useful in predicting elections. To find its counterpoint, click here.
The democratic value of public opinion...
Last week seven species of Hawaiian bees were named endangered. These were the first bees in the U.S. to be placed under the protection of the Endangered Species Act, which aims to conserve threatened...
On Saturday, Robert DeNiro announced that he wanted to punch Donald Trump in the face. By now thousands of voters have probably sent DeNiro a few hundred pairs of boxing gloves and brass knuckles. Experts...
Editor’s note: Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, our sources spoke to us on the condition of anonymity.
For those that do not attend UT, the traditions surrounding Red River Rivalry Weekend...
Baylor’s Title IX Coordinator resigned last week, in yet another event stemming from the sexual assault scandal that has clung to the school since it surfaced last August. In an interview following...
Twenty four hours prior to Sunday’s presidential debate, the Republican Party stood at a fork in the road. They could either disavow their presidential candidate, who was exposed on Friday gleefully...
WikiLeaks has not ignored the opportunity to crack down on corruption this election season. As of late, the organization, which identifies itself as “a multi-national media organization” that...
In a hypothetical introductory course on campus, two students sit in the same room. One student graduated from an elite urban private school. In her English course, consisting of only 15 students, her...
No more than the infantrymen at Sumter knew, the shots fired by the congressmen on the Salt Lake late Friday may very well, in retrospect, be the ones that cascade into civil war, at least for the Republican...
Horns up: ACL and The Texas State Fair
With all due respect to our friends who had to drive back to Norman, this past weekend is the one that makes clear why going to UT is the indisputably right choice....
On Oct. 3, students received an email announcing that transcript request costs would soar from an already high $10 to $20, an overwhelming 100 percent increase.
“In order to continue providing...
In Travis County, 30 percent of the county jail population suffers from mental illness, compared to only about 18.2 of the U.S. population.
Due to Texas’ and Travis County’s painfully...
